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A cross-sectional survey on knowledge and perceptions of health risks associated with arsenic and mercury contamination from artisanal gold mining in Tanzania [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2013 Background An estimated 0.5 to 1.5 million informal miners, of whom 30-50% are women, rely on artisanal mining for their livelihood in Tanzania. Mercury, used in the processing gold ore, and arsenic, which is a constituent of some ores, are common ...
Charles Elias +5 more
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THE ANATOMY OF ARTISANAL GOLD MINING IN WESTERN KENYA
European Journal of Economic and Financial Research<p>This study examined the anatomy of artisanal gold mining in western Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were; to evaluate the effect of artisanal gold mining on land, water and air pollution in western Kenya, to evaluate the effect of artisanal gold mining on education in western Kenya, to evaluate the effect of artisanal gold mining ...
Nyongesa, Andrew Shitanda
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Myths and realities in artisanal gold mining mercury contamination
, 2013 The world faces a major gold rush currently. Worldwide 15 million people work directly in artisanal gold mining in more than 55 countries. The usual method of extraction is amalgamation and cyanidation, or very commonly a combination of both. Significant amounts of contaminants are released to rivers and soil, generating environmental and health ...
Santos, Gustavo Angeloci
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Journal of Degraded and Mining Lands Management, 2021 South Africa has many artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities that some are registered and others informal and illegal. This paper presents an overview of ASM operations in the vicinity of abandoned mine sites found in Giyani and Musina areas ...
Sphiwe Emmanuel Mhlongo +1 more
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Cleaner Production Letters, 2023 Artisanal and small-scale gold mining is an important livelihood, but also the largest contributor to anthropogenic mercury emissions globally. Two key persistent challenges in reducing mercury use in artisanal and small-scale gold mining communities are
Arabella Chen +3 more
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Alternautas, 2022 Mining, right, to water, struggle, Amazon, Peru Since the 2008 financial crisis, increase in global demand and the price of gold have led to an expansion of industrial and artisanal gold mining (Swenson et al., 2011; World Gold Council, 2010). Worldwide,
Céline Delmotte
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, 2021 This framework document provides a pragmatic approach for designing representative studies and developing uniform sampling guidelines to support estimates of morbidity that are explicitly linked to exposure to land-based contaminants from artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) activities.
von Stackelberg, Katherine +2 more
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Access to Land and Natural Resources in the Peruvian Amazon
Revue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2022 This article explores power relations between farmers and artisanal gold miners based on an analysis of a buffer zone in the Amazonian department of Madre de Dios (Peru), which has been experiencing a gold rush since the mid-2000s.
Céline Delmotte
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VertigO, 2023 In 2010, the Cotapata cooperative in Bolivia was the first artisanal mining organisation to sell "fair trade" gold globally, followed in the country by the "15 de agosto" cooperative and Yani.
Claude Le Gouill, Hernan Herbozo
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EchoGéo, 2021 The formalization of artisanal gold mining is recommended by the World Bank, which considers that it promotes the minimization of harmful impacts. According to some authors, mechanization and the high level of the price of gold internationally are ...
Edith Sawadogo +1 more
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